剑桥国际英语Interchange2Unit1-Unit2试卷.pdfVIP

肂 ISS1 Foundation English Monthly Test 羀 (Period: 100 mins) 螄 Part 1: Listening (1’*20) 莃 Part 2: Grammar and Vocabulary 膂 Section 1: Fill in the gaps with verbs from the box in the past simple. (1’*13) 莁 allow be be be invent increase lay mean own receive replace ride take walk 蒆 The pace of change in the world of technology is amazing. It 1. wasn’t (not) long ago that the postal service 2. ______ our only way to communicate over any distance. It 3. _______ days and sometimes weeks to receive letters from within the same country. As a result, the news in the letters 4. ______ already out of date when people 5. ______ them. In the workplace, this 6. _____ that business was mostly conducted locally, over relatively short distances. 莆 When Alexander Graham Bell 7. ______ the telephone in 1876 it 8. _____ the foundation for the communication systems we have today. The telephone 9. ______ two people to communicate instantly across a great distance. Eventually computers 10. ____ typewriters and dramatically 11. ____ the speed of our daily work life. Nowadays the Internet is an essential part of every business. 膂 However, it is not just communications that have changed. Only 50 years ago most people 12. ______ (not) a car. People 13. _____ to work or 14. _____ bicycles. Changes in travel as well as the increased speed of communications have led to the global business world that we have today. 蒇 Section 2: Fill in the gaps with amount, number, few, little, many, much. (1 ’*10) 芈 How much sleep do we need? 膄 The 1. amount of sleep each person needs depends on 2. _____ factors, including age. Infants generally require about 16 hours a day. For most adults, seven to eight hours a night appears to be the ideal 3. ______ of sleep, although a 4. _____